Standard Triple Therapy versus Sequential Therapy in Helicobacter pylori Eradication: A Double-Blind, Randomized, and Controlled Trial

Table 1

Demographic and clinical characteristic of the patients.

	Triple therapy; (); /%	Sequential therapy; (); /%	value
Mean age	50.2 ± 1.7	44.2 ± 1.6	0.011
Gender: female	32 (64%)	40 (80%)	0.118
Cigarette smoking	17 (34%)	11 (22%)	0.695
Alcohol drinking	6 (12%)	2 (4%)	0.269
Chronic gastritis	41 (82%)	44 (88%)	0.265
Duodenal ulcer	5 (10%)	4 (8%)
Gastric ulcer	4 (8%)	2 (4%)